RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Buchanan, MD

Neurology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1710162227

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 366 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,231, 5.3 times the $421 reported in 2019.

$6,241in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 366 payments — averaging $17.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$641
  • UCB, Inc.$589
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$530
  • Pfizer$494
  • Novartis$312
  • Argenx US, Inc.$292
  • plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,241100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$6,241 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 157 neurology providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$136,948
Medicare patients
295
Services billed
6,399

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Kesimpta PenOfatumumab20$184,036
CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate13$84,691
XcopriCenobamate64$77,958
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate52$73,333
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate17$71,696
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate17$44,403
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe23$24,078
EliquisApixaban24$19,708
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm19$19,707
BotoxOnabotulinumtoxina15$19,305
Ajovy AutoinjectorFremanezumab-Vfrm12$16,693
Dalfampridine ErDalfampridine42$16,480
NayzilamMidazolam15$14,679
KeppraLevetiracetam14$13,242
VimpatLacosamide12$12,801

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerNurtec Odt, Eliquis$494$93,04276 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Copaxone$177$84,69113 claims
SK Life Science, Inc.Xcopri$110$77,95864 claims
Acadia Pharmaceuticals IncNuplazid$35$71,69617 claims
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom$13$44,40317 claims
UCB, Inc.Nayzilam, Vimpat$589$27,48127 claims
AbbVieBotox$641$19,30515 claims
Lilly USA, LLCReyvow$148$9,61213 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCPyridostigmine Bromide$13$2,39723 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 157 neurology providers in Utah.

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